May 2008
10 posts
Wiki-gov, special interests, and wiki-regs
So I finally had a chance to read Beth Simone Noveck’s article on wiki-government about which Jim has previously posted. The idea is to take tools of mass collaboration that have given us Wikipedia and Linux and apply them to the development of policy. Like the encyclopedias and operating systems of the past, policy development is now often the exclusive domain of government experts. Noveck...
What is ConnectKentucky exactly?
I’d like to tap TLF’s incredibly smart readers for some help. Does anyone know what ConnectKentucky is or how it works? If you do, I’d much appreciate you post a comment explaining it. Its website is typified by language like this passage from its homepage:
ConnectKentucky connects people to technology in world-altering ways: improving the lives of the formerly disconnected;...
Lessig's orphan works proposal still unworkable
Lawrence Lessig has an op-ed in the New York Times today calling the orphan works bill now before Congress “unfair and unwise.” He agrees that the orphan works problem is real and merits an immediate response, but finds fault with the bill because it is unfair to copyright holders who have relied on existing law and “because for all this unfairness, it simply wouldn’t do much...
